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The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past | Editorial Editorial: Megawatt fast EV charging reflects a coordinated grid strategy the UK once used. Privatisation and fragmentation now make that infrastructure far harder to build

"a quarter of the average household energy bill ~ £450 – flow today into corporate profits. Nearly 30% of a water bill in the English privatised system goes to shareholder returns and paying debt"

How privatisation ruined public utilities

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Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

“Men of Steel drive cars made of cardboard”. #Berlin

Along with his UK acolytes.

Tres chic.

Robots are not allowed to re-charge themselves at EV charging stations in Glasgow.

#streetart #bender #robots #sign #glasgow #EVChargingStation #streetartsigns #scotland

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport.

It read:

“To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”

A little known consequence of the decline in pub numbers in the UK, especially the saloon bar, is that the right-wing bores were driven from their natural habitat.

Fortunately social media arrived in the nick of time.

#environment

When you see "right wingers", do you think "yes, they do complain a lot"?

Of all the complaints against Starmer, the most absurd is that it's "weak" to have a Cabinet that doesn't just rubber-stamp what The Leader wants on questions of war & peace.

I'd take Cabinet govt - in which ministers kick the tyres of big decisions - over the kneel-and-obey model of Farage any day

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP

The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100……

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/revealed-the-staggering-amount-of-time-nigel-farage-has-spent-on-on-second-jobs-since-becoming-an-mp/

The gulf between what people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East & what Tony Blair thinks people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East is positively Badenochian.

You can insert any subject here.

The media may think Blair is intrinsically interesting, Blair certainly thinks his every breath is intrinsically interesting, but he is not, nor ever was, intrinsically interesting.

#Blair

My interest in a subject diminishes in exact proportion to Stephen Fry's pronouncements on it.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

It's interesting to see all the right wing press and commentators auditioning to be Lord Haw Haw.

#ukpolitics

The Times has independently interviewed 35 former employees, whose accounts trace a pattern of physical punishment Mr. Redzepi inflicted on his staff. Between 2009 and 2017, they said, he punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls. They described lasting trauma from layers of psychological abuse, including intimidation, body shaming and public ridicule. Mr. Redzepi, they said, threatened to use his influence to get them blacklisted from restaurants around the world, to have their families deported, or to get their wives fired from their jobs at other businesses.

All those fawning stories about Noma, its 'food innovation lab' and its 'social mission'.

Should always judge a person by their enemies.

Lorry carrying bottles of Vicks VapoRub has just overturned on the motorway. There will be no congestion for 5 hours..we can all breathe more easily now😉

The Messiah doesn't make mistakes.

Is it really a war?

Play along with Andrew Heaton's new game show.

The other plan being not to let any in.

Complete the following sentence:

"It's Friday, it's 5 to 5, it's Cr......"

(For those of a certain age).

'Completely'?

If that were so we probably wouldn't need or choose to label ourselves introverts.

Like the surgeon said, "The operation was a total success, but sadly the patient died."

Did it survive first contact with UK politics?

Thank you for the postings!